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Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says the U.S. is “looking at” banning TikTok and other Chinese social media apps,
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Trump suggests a TikTok ban could be deployed to punish China for the outbreak of the coronavirus.
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Trump tells reporters he plans to ban TikTok in the United States within 24 hours.
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Microsoft confirms in a statement that they are in talks to purchase Tiktok by September 15. https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2020/08/02/microsoft-to-continue-discussions-on-potential-tiktok-purchase-in-the-united-states/
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President Donald Trump issues an executive order banning transactions with TikTok in 45 days.
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Trump gives TikTok 90 days to be sold or it will be banned.
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President Trump says he has approved a deal between TikTok's parent company, ByteDance, and Oracle, temporarily avoiding a ban on TikTok in app stores in the US.
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Interim Head of TikTok Vanessa Pappas released a video on Tiktok's official account announcing the Oracle deal and saying that TikTok is "here to stay" with "no change to our users here in US or around the world."
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The original deadline for TikTok to be sold to a US buyer.
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US President Donald Trump says that American companies need to control the service, otherwise "we're not going to approve the deal."
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A US judge orders the Trump administration to either postpone its ban on TikTok or respond by the next afternoon to a request from ByteDance to temporarily block the ban.
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TikTok's current deadline to get its deal with Oracle and Walmart approved and sorted out, or approve another deal.